02 Orientalist Paintings, Hugh Joseph Ward’s Desert Madness, with footnotes, #99

Hugh Joseph Ward (American, 1909-1945)
Desert Madness

Oil on canvas
20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Private collection

Hugh Joseph Ward (March 8, 1909 — February 7, 1945), is primarily known for the “Spicy” cover art he did for pulp magazines. His paintings for these covers almost always portrayed a beautiful woman (often modeled by his lovely wife Viola) fleeing for her life from a thug or some fiendish monster or another, sometimes in little more than her under garments…

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